Database Administrator

Mishimoto AutomotiveSan Francisco, CA2019-04-24

Summary

Wikimedia's goal is to provide every single person with the sum of all human knowledge and MariaDB/MySQL is how we store most of it. You will be joining a small mission driven team of talented highly experienced engineers. As one of the most highly trafficked sites, there is literally nowhere else serving as many page views per engineer. As a Database Administrator at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the wellbeing of our relational data and the database systems they reside on, including the availability and performance. You should be able to troubleshoot, benchmark and test new builds of MariaDB and MySQL, plan for disaster recovery, and improve and maintain backups. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact. Our work is important, and it’s used by hundreds of millions of people.

Responsibilities

Implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting of relational database systems in production and staging environments

Database performance tuning, high availability, replication, backups, and general optimization

...the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply

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